Birth: November 2, 1699
Death: December 6, 1779
Nationality: French
Movement: Rococo time period, but French Provincial Realism in practice (yes, I totally made French Provincial Realism and to see why check out… 192 more words

“I’m going to promote myself exactly as I am, with all my weak points and my strong ones. My weak points are that I’m self-conscious and often insecure, and my strong point is that I don’t feel any shame about it.” – Patti Smith… 926 more words

In the postscript to Umberto Eco’s dense and philosophical historical novel, The Name of the Rose, he observes: “…I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.” 960 more words